Station / Estación # 107: UAM-I

Since I came to realise, not so long ago, the immense similarity of the name of this station (UAM-I) to the name of my favourite all time Australian rock ‘n’ roll band You Am I it has been at the fore of my consciousness and I knew an MCM Project visit was imminent.

I have actually visited the area briefly before so I probably should have noted the resemblance previously.

It did take me thirty years to anagrammatize my surname.

DAVIES – _ _ _ _ _ _?

So, tonight I blog UAM-I – the station, to the sounds of You Am I – the great band, the sound of my Australian 90s youth, the trigger of nostalgia.

Here’s a modern sample (veering considerably off their staple)

Ok, the visit.

UAM-I are actually the initials for Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Iztapalapa which is situated near the station.

I wandered through the southern cityscapes – zero limits, one thousand possibilities-, the little peculiarities and diminutive idiosyncrasies combine with everything else, garnish the urban streets to give a unique flavour.

It can be described by words and it cannot.

It can manifest in images and it cannot.

A quintet of perceptions cannot be bottled or canned.

And then there is the sixth variable.

I wandered up a hill and climbed a staircase to be greeted by a surburban church, so vivid, vibrant and vivacious.

With all those little fractions and decimals adding up to one mysterious and uneven whole I had to conclude, just like Winston in Orwell’s dystopian Nineteen Eighty-Four, that two and two do make five for no station surrounds can be neatly contained within the four sides of any square.